Big book Quote by Kate Grenville

I find any kind of 'organizing' very difficult. And that has irksome consequences when it comes to books, since I've often wound up buying…

— Herta Muller

It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor. Take them…

— Marie Kondo

I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during…

— Judy Blume

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books,…

— Mary Roach

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a…

— Shane McCrae

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

— Douglas Coupland

When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of…

— Philip Roth

Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only…

— Jennifer Egan

I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind…

— Joan Didion

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

— Anna Sui

I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the…

— Ned Beauman

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you…

— Ethan Canin